After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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